Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?

[Danny Lieberman]

Amos
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Danny
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/3/5 Ira Abramov <Lists-Linux-IL at ira.abramov.org>:
> > I've been waiting for KVM to hit the prime-time for a while, I remember
> > Mulix told me a year ago it's "Xen done the right way" and it should be
>
> I'm waiting for it to - but in the meantime I still need to Get Things
> Done so I stick to whatever comes pre-packaged and supported with my
> SOE distro - namely Xen (3.0) on CentOS 5.
>
> I haven't touched Xen before I started using with it for my current
> job and don't remember that it was an issue to get on top of it and
> start cranking out platforms for our product.
>
> CentOS 5.4 is scheduled to include KVM so I plan to start playing with
> that as soon as it comes out, in parallel to sticking with Xen for
> production and generally switch to KVM when I feel comfortable and it
> becomes officially supported.
>
> Right now I got my toolset working around Xen 3.0's limitations and am
> generally content with the result. We manage to auto-redeploy complete
> environments in about an hour of running scripts. One script execution
> per virtual host (7 unique hosts for now, total of 14 on two xen hosts
> for HA and scalability, more to come soon).
>
> ("auto-redeploy" means that we rebuild the image from scratch for
> every version upgrade (starting at kickstart with a "%post" script
> inside an "xm create" with automatically crafted configuration files),
> that way we can be sure that what we have in dev, qa, staging is
> exactly the same as what we have in production)
>
> Maybe we should take another look at libvirt if we'll stick to our own
> servers instead of moving into the cloud (which we keep looking at).
> I'm a Perl guy and get sick from Python's indent-to-enclose but might
> have to live with it.
>
> Speaking of cloud platforms - Amazon is not the only game in town,
> there are also:
> 1. Slicehost
> 2. GoGrid
> 3. scalr (http://code.google.com/p/scalr/) - an open source interface
> to AWS turned into a commercial service too.
>
> These are the ones I can remember off the top of my head right now.
>
> --Amos
>
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